Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham Lincoln -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz -
Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
FKA twigs -
You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
Tami Hoag -
My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
Yves Chauvin -
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
J. H. Wyman -
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
Karl Liebknecht -
It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
Walter O'Brien -
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle -
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
Sam Brownback
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
Nate Berkus -
That consecrated combination of private interests and public plunders.
Oswald Mosley -
Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
Ted Hughes -
But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
Adam Smith
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
Pat Robertson -
Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.
Jeremy Lin -
You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
Jeff Raikes -
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.
Albert Camus -
Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
Elvis Costello